Engine
Staff Software Engineer
$200K–$245K
Remote - US · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years.
About the job
Leads system design and engineering initiatives for scalable, secure, high-performing software and APIs, while mentoring engineers and advancing the use of agentic coding tools.
What you'll do
- Drive system design and build software systems and APIs focused on scalability, security, and performance.
- Collaborate with Product and Data Science, mentor engineers, and lead software quality and robustness efforts.
- Own initiatives that improve efficiency, system performance, and customer satisfaction.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available, high-performing distributed systems.
- Track record building public-facing APIs and managing versioning, deprecation, and consumption-based rate limiting.
- Strong software design, scalability, system architecture, and Domain-Driven Design skills.
- Actively use agentic coding tools and understand agentic workflows, including building a harness and structuring codebases for agents.
Pay
$200,000 — $245,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Node.js, TypeScript, Kotlin, React, AWS, Claude Code, Cursor
AI focus
Use agentic coding tools in daily work; understand agentic workflows, build harnesses, structure codebases for agents, and help set team defaults for these tools.
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